NICOLE AWAI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Nicole Awai: Envisioning the Liquid Land, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY, 10/2019 2017 Nicole Awai: Vistas, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY Nicole Awai: Material Re-Pose, Courtyard Gallery, AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, The University of Texas at Austin 2016 Nicole Awai: Notes for Material Re-Pose, Critical Practices/ 21st Projects, NY 2013 Asphaltum Glance, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad 2012 Mi Papi, Dream On – Happy Ending…, Washington Windows, 80wse Galleries, New York University 2011 Almost Undone, The Vilcek Foundation, New York, NY 2009 Backward and Forward, Akus Gallery, University of Eastern Connecticut 2005 Nicole Awai: Local Ephemera, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Identity Measures, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY Summer Affairs, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX New Monuments for New Cities, The High Line Network, Houston, Austin, Chicago, Toronto and New York City Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago -Portland Museum of Art, Spring 2019 -Delaware Art Museum, 06/22-09/08/2019 2018 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, Florida International Museum, Miami FL, 10/12/2018-1/19/2019 Alchemy, BRIC House, BRIC Media Arts, Brooklyn, NY Said by Her, Lesley Heller Gallery, NY, NY PRIZM, Art Fair 2018, Miami Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, NY 2017 PRIZM, Art Fair 2017, Miami Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA II, A Getty Initiative, -Circles and Circuits I, History and Art of the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora, California African American Museum -Circles and Circuits II, Contemporary Art of the Chinese Caribbean, the Chinese American Museum -Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Home, Memory and Future, The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, NY, NY SPLOTCH, Sperone Westwater Gallery, NY, NY SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity, Arts Westchester, White Plains, NY 2015 Made in the USA, TSA NY, NY IN SITU: Women Artists in Place, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, NY 2014 FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, The Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington, D.C. Art / Industry: Collaboration and Revelation, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Out to See, South Street Seaport Museum, Howard Hughes Foundation, NY 2013 American Beauty, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, 12/12/13-2/1/14 Be Inspired! Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. 2012 Friends with Benefits, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY Happy Islands, Biennale di Caribe Aruba, Fundacion Encuentro Prome Bienal di Aruba Me Love You Long Time, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ 2011 Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C. Global Caribbean, Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico 2010 Global Caribbean, Musee International des Arts Modestes, Sete, France 2009 Global Caribbean: Satellites at Art Basel, Miami 2008 2008 Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Korea 2007 Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum Pilot 3, St Cosimo, La Giudecca, Venice, Italy 2006 Tropicalisms: Subversions of Paradise, Jersey City Museum “D’Asie d’Afrique”, Artist Commune, Hong Kong 2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum 2003 Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Albisola/Savona, Italy After Matisse/ Picasso, PS1/MOMA, NY 637 Running Feet: Black on White Wall Drawings by 14 Artists, Queens Museum. 2002 Model Citizens: Nicole Awai, Lennon Jon Baptiste, Tony Gray, Wangechi Mutu, Roger Smith Gallery, NY 2001 Panyard, Nicole Awai and Terry Boddie, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY. Between Lines,Centro Cultural Cariforo, Dominican Republic Hope Box, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Griffith University, Australia New New York, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University 2000 From the Studio: AIR 1999-2000, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, PS1/MOMA 1998 Homelands, Nicole Awai, Sara Good, Karen Stinnett, St. Petersburg Center for the Arts, FL 1997 Prints and Processes, Raymond James Room, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES Pioneerworks, Governors Island Residency, NY, 2019 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Art Center Residency, Governors Island, NY, 2019 Joan Mitchell Center Residency, New Orleans, LA, 2018 BRIC Workspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY, 2017 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Residency, 2015 Black Artists Retreat, Chicago, IL, 2013 AIR, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 2013 Art Matters Grant, 2012 The Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, 2011 Smack Mellon Studio Program, 2010-2011 Arts and Industry AIR, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2008 AIR, Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 2007 AIR, Chashama, NY, 2006 Emerge, Aljira, Newark, NJ, 2006 Art Omi, Hudson, NY. 2004 AIR, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY, 2004 Big River 2 International Artists’ Workshop, Caribbean Contemporary Arts & Triangle Trust, Trinidad, 2001 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY 2001 AIR, Hunter College CUNY, Art Department, NY, 2000 AIR, The Studio Museum in Harlem 1999-2000 AIR, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL, 1998 Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, NJ, 1998 Artists in the Market Place, Bronx Museum, 1997 - 1998

REVIEWS AND OTHER MEDIA What Should Monuments Look Like Now? 25 Artworks Reveal Some Ideas, Art & Design, New York Times, 11/30/2018 High Line Invites Artists to Imagine New Monuments, Artforum: News, 11/29/2019 Opinion/ Op-Art: Monuments for a New Era, Sunday Review, New York Times, 8/12/2018 Brooklyn's Soldier Angel Inspires a Monument to Resistance, Hyperallergic, 7/20/2018 Curator Love, Sugar, Spice and Everything CAAM, 11/28/2017 Arte Al Dia, PST: LA/LA Presents Circles and Circuits Chinese Caribbean Art, by Julia P. Herzberg CBS Los Angeles, 10 Best Art Exhibits on Display Right Now in Los Angeles, 10/29/2017 Los Angeles Downtown News, Arts & Entertainment, 40 Fantastic Arts & Entertainment Choices for the Fall Artnet News – Editor’s Picks: “Nicole Awai: Vistas” at Lesley Heller Workspace, 5/15/17 New York Times, Arts/White Plains, Conversation on the Female Identity, by Douglas P. Clement, 4/3/2016 AADAT Art – African & Afro – Diaspora Art Talks, ‘10 Caribbean Artists You Should Know’, 2/2015 New York Times, Art in Review: ‘American Beauty’, by Holland Cotter, 1/24/2014 The Artists Forum, Nicole Awai: Almost Undone, Gallery Review, 10/4/2011 New York Times, Art in Review, From Young Storytellers, A Playful Tone: Contemporary Art Powerhouse’s Emerging Artists Show Promise, by Benjamin Genocchio, 8/26/2007 AM New York, Weekend, Infinite Island, 8/31-9/3/2007 New York Times, Art in Review, Coloring a Tropical Paradise, by Benjamin Genocchio, 12/3/2006 The International Review of African American Art, volume 20 no.2, 2005 Gallery & Studio, New York Notebook, Open House: A Museum grows in Brooklyn, vol. 6, summer 2004 New York Times, Art Guide, Open House: Working in Brooklyn (w/repro), by Holland Cotter, 4/30/2004 NY Arts, Hot Shows from the Edge: Summer in the City, by Carl E. Hazlewood, 9/2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Review "Culture and Memory" by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, #13/14, 2001 New York Times, Art in Review, Picking Out Distinctive Voices in a Pluralistic Chorus, by Holland Cotter, 08/18/2000 New York Times, Weekend: Fine Arts and Leisure, Artists in the Market Place, by Holland Cotter, 8/14/1998

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 'Picturing Theory': Nicole Awai's Black Ooze as Post Diaspora Expression, paper by Dr. Marsha Pearce, the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies at the University of the West Indies presented at the Caribbean Women (Post) – Diaspora: African/Caribbean Interconnections Symposium at the London South Bank University, 7/12/2018 (Will be included in upcoming publication in 2020) Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art, edited by Alexandra Chang, published by the Chinese American Museum and distributed by Duke University Press, 2018 Black Renaissance Noire, ‘Nicole Awai’, NYU Institute of African American Affairs, Volume 17 issue 2, Fall 2017 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, edited by Tatiana Flores and Michelle Stephens, Duke University Press, 2017 Between the Lines, An RxArt Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists – Volume 6, RxArt &Sies Marjan, 2017 Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism, Oozing between Dimensions: Multiple Perspectives on the Real in the Works of Nicole Awai by Michelle Stephens, Art as Caribbean Feminist Practice, No. 52, 2017 Splotch, essays by Eileen Jeng & Robert C. Morgan, published by Neumeraki, 2016 Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure, by Roshini Kempadoo, Rowan & Little Field, 2016 Callaloo, Art and Culture in the African Diaspora, ‘Nicole Awai’, John Hopkins University Press, October 2014 Marking 20 Years, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, catalog of museum collection, Kansas City, Missouri Imagining Her(story): Engendering Archives, by Roshini Kempadoo, Chapter 5, Renewing Feminism: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies, edited by Helen Thornham & Elke Weissmann, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2013 Caribbean Crossroads of the World, Yale University Press, 2012 Nicole Awai: Almost Undone, essay by Courtney J. Martin, The Vilcek Foundation, NY, 2011 Busan Biennale 2008: Expenditure, Busan Museum of Modern Art, 2008 Art Etc, >copy>cut>paste>undo paste: Locating Caribbean Women Artists in the Diaspora, by Joscelyn Gardner, Vol.2 Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, edited by Tumelo Mosaka, Brooklyn Museum in association with Philip Wilson Publishers, 2007 Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism, Email from ‘HERE’ by Nicole Awai, Winter 2007 Inveterate Outsider, African American Women Artists Get Their Due (and Pay Them) by Margaret Vendryes Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Charlotta Kotik & Tumelo Mosaka, Brooklyn Museum, 2004 Review: Literature and Art of the Americas 68, Volume 37, The World of In-Between: Nicole Awai, by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, 5/2004 BOMB, Artists on Artists: Nicole Awai by Christopher Cozier, Winter 2003/2004. New American Paintings, Number 32, Volume 6, no. 1, Open Studios Press, 3/2001 Between Lines, Centro Cultural Cariforo, Dominican Republic, 2001 Harper's Bazaar, "United Artists", by Catherine Hong, May 2000 Artists in the Marketplace: Eighteenth Annual Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1998

SELECTED PANELS, INTERVIEWS AND ARTIST TALKS Nicole Awai, Artist Talk, Delaware Museum of Art, 7/28/2019 Nicole Awai, Artist Talk, Newcomb Museum of Tulane University, 10/1/2018 Artist-in-Residence: Nicole Awai, BRIC Workspace Residency summer 2017 Interview Nicole Awai: Vistas – Artist Talk, Lesley Heller workspace, NY, 6/21/2017 Nicole Awai – Yale Radio Interview. 5/12/2017 Global Blackness & Transnationalities, Elia Alba’s Supper Club Conversations, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, NY 08/14/2015 Artist Interview: Nicole Awai, art-rated.com 12/13/2014 New York Foundation for the Arts, Developing and Maintaining a Successful Career Path, panel discussion, 8/6/2014 Nicole Awai – April 2014, Africanah.org College Art Association Conference 2013, Painting: The Elastic Frontier, panel discussion, 2/15/2013 Nicole Awai, Artist Talk, University of Kentucky, College of Fine Arts 11/2012 Kemper at the Crossroads – Nicole Awai, Artist talk, 10/5/2012 Nicole Awai, Artist Talk, Parsons, The New School 4/2012 (Dis) Locating Critical Spaces: A South-South Dialogue, The Substation/ Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa /the Vilcek Foundation, NY, USA, 10/26/2011 – panel discussion Contemporary Caribbean Art in a Global Context, panel discussion, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, NJ, 9/29/2011 Bad at Sports, Episode 234: NADA 4 Awai / Blass, 2/21/2010 Global Caribbean: Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture, Nicole Awai, Roshini Kempadoo and Joscelyn Gardner, panel discussion University of Miami/ Little Haiti Cultural Center, 3/4-6/2010 Conversation from ‘Here’, panel discussion, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 10/8/07 Initial Public Offering: New Artists, New Curators, Nicole Awai with Rocio Aranda Alvarado, Whitney Museum of American Art, 3/23/05